Wunder's Brewery opens at the northeast corner of Conkling & O'Donnell streets and later becomes National Brewing Company.

1873

March 25th: Columbus O'Donnell dies at 81 and is buried at Greenmount Cemetery.

John Gardner opens a grain elevator and warehouse at the south end of Canton Co. property.

1874

Edward Renneburg & Sons begins making equipment for oyster and other canning businesses.

The German United Evangelical Church is dedicated at East Avenue and Dillon Street.

1876

Christian Gehl opens a small brewery on the southeast corner Conkling & O'Donnell, which becomes Gunther's in 1880.

1877

December 14: Baltimore United Oil is formed under the sponsorship of Standard Oil Co.

1878

March 30: The first telephone in Canton is installed at Booz Bros. Shipyard.

Baker-Whitely opens a coal company on the 2200 block of S. Clinton St. to supply ships in Baltimore's harbor.

1883

The Norton Tin Can Co. of Chicago acquires Abbott Iron Works to make tin cans for the canning industry.

1883–1884

Three-story houses for Welsh copper workers are built along the 1600 block of S. Clinton St., known as Copper Row.

1884

November 30: The new Canton Methodist Church is dedicated at Canton (now Ellwood) Ave. and Dillon St.

1886

February 15: The Canton Library opens at Canton (now Ellwood) Ave. & O'Donnell St. as the first branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The building was designed by architect Charles Carson, who also designed 3046 O'Donnell St. (the "key hole house"), Mt. Vernon Methodist Church, Goucher Hall next to Lovely Lane Methodist Church, and the 1880s wing of Evergreen House.

1887

May 15: Canton & other Baltimore County residents vote against extending city line eastward from East Ave.

1892

Baltimore United Oil Co. is sold to Standard Oil Co., owned by John D. Rockefeller.

Canton National Bank is founded at East Ave. & Elliott St.; after many mergers over the years, it's now Carrollton Bank.

1895

The Norton Tin Plate & Can Co. on Boston St. builds a new gabled manufacturing plant (current side of DAP World Headquarters).

1896

Rev. William Batz becomes pastor of the German United Evangelical Church. Although he died in 1926, people admired him so much that the church has been unofficially known as Batz's Church ever since.

March 1: Messiah English Lutheran Church dedicates a new granite church building at Potomac & O'Donnell Streets, which is now the Church on the Square.

1901

March: The American Can Co. is formed and takes over Norton Tin Plate & Can Co. at Boston & Hudson Streets.

1902

June 16: Fire Engine Co. No. 2 opens in a new building at Linwood Ave. & O'Donnell St., which is now the present-day Firehouse Coffee Company.

November 9: St. Casimir Catholic Church opens on Lakewood Ave. at O'Donnell St. for the growing Polish population.

1904

The American Can Co. builds a large warehouse along Boston St. next to the 1895 gabled building.

1906

The Canton Railroad is begun by the Canton Co., connecting businesses to all major railroads in the city.

1908

The present-day Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church building is constructed at Foster Ave. & Conkling St.

1913–1914

William Oktavec begins painting window screens, which are popular all over Canton for decades.

1914

The Tin Decorating Co. is created by American Tobacco Co. and is the world's largest producer of tin cans, producing 4 million tins per day in 1937.

1916

Lazaretto Lighthouse is the first in Maryland to be electrified.

1918

March 29: The Maryland General Assembly approves moving the city line from East Avenue to its present location.

1923

The American Can Co. builds the Flatiron-style building at the intersection of Boston and Hudson Streets and Montford Ave.

1926

September 29: The original Lazaretto Lighthouse is demolished, and a new 39-foot high lighthouse is constructed on the site.

1927

A new Renaissance Revival-style St. Casimir's Catholic Church, designed by Palmer, Willis, Lambdin architects, opens on Kenwood Ave. at O'Donnell St. with a replica of the altar from the Basilica of St. Anthony's in Padua, Italy.

January: City Council passes condemnation bill for construction of I-83 expressway along Boston St.

1967

The present-day St. Brigid's Catholic Church building is constructed at Ellwood Ave. and Hudson St.

1968

Baltimore city demolishes 215 houses between Boston and Elliott Streets and Linwood and Lakewood Avenues to make way for I-83. Gloria Aull and Barbara Mikulski start the Southeast Council Against the Road (SCAR) to protest construction of the East-West Expressway through Canton, Fells Point, Federal Hill, and other communities.

1970s

The city spends over $15 million to rebuild the Lakewood Avenue storm drain.

1971

November: Barbara Mikulski is elected to the Baltimore City Council.

1975

The American Smelting & Refining Co. closes its copper plant on S. Clinton St. At its peak, it covered 45 acres, employed up to 12,000 workers, and was owned by the Guggenheim family.

National Brewery closes its Canton plant; production continues in Linthicum next to the Baltimore Beltway and I-895.

September: The old Canton Market roof is moved to the play field near Toone and Robinson Streets.

1980

January 29: The Canton Historic District is added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The statue of John O'Donnell, by Tilden Streett, sculptor, statue isdedicated in O'Donnell Square.

1983

The Anchorage Townhouses, forty three-story houses, are completed as the first new waterfront houses built in Baltimore for over 100 years, with initial asking prices ranging from $152,500 to $172,500.

1985

A replica of Lazaretto Lighthouse is rebuilt in memory of Norman G. Rukert.

March: The Hatton Senior Center opens at Fait and Linwood Avenues.

November 23: The Fort McHenry Tunnel opens at 1.5 miles long; it took 5 1/2 years to build at a cost of $750 million.

1986

February 15: The Canton Library celebrates its 100th anniversary with a gala re-enactment of the original 1886 opening program and publication of the Canton Centennial Cookbook; 1,000 copies sell out quickly.

1987

Spring: The Tindeco Wharf Apartments on Boston Street, with 240 rental units, are completed and occupied.The Shipyard Apartments at the former Renneburg Co. site on Boston St. are completed with 56 rental units.

April: North Shore at the Anchorage is proposed with 120 condo units and twelve pier houses; prices range from one-bedrooms at $142,000 up to pier houses at $1 million.

The State of Maryland buys Canton Railroad for $875,000.

Construction begins on the Canton Square townhouses, 124 units which are located on the site of the rowhouses demolished for the never-built East-West Expressway.

Anchorage Tower is completed with 95 luxury condos at $110,000–$399,000.

November: The Waterfront Coalition releases its Canton Guide Plan because the city has no master plan for development.

1988

Spring: The American Can Company closes its lithography ovens, the last operations at the 87-year-old plant.

August 31: The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a federal agency, notifies Baltimore City that re-development of the historic American Can buildings "should select a development proposal responsive to citizen input," regarding adaptive re-use of the buildings after the Waterfront Coalition and other community residents reject demolition of site.